The Future of Wearable Technology: Fitbit and Google Pixel Watch

There's been some excitement about the upcoming release of the Google Pixel Watch, which promises to bring advanced features and innovative design to the wearable tech market. Among the many rumors and speculation surrounding the watch, one aspect that stands out is its potential integration with Fitbit. It appears that Fitbit will be a key partner in the development of the Pixel Watch, and we can expect some interesting developments as a result.

One thing that's become clear is that Fitbit Premium will be available for the Pixel Watch. This means that users who subscribe to Fitbit Premium will have access to a range of additional features and insights on their Pixel Watch. While we don't know exactly how these features will work, it's likely that they'll include things like heart rate tracking, sleep monitoring, and other advanced health metrics.

However, it's worth noting that not all Fitbit features require the Premium subscription. Many basic Fitbit features are still available for free, which means that users won't need to pay extra for things like step tracking or calorie burn calculations. This is an important distinction, as it suggests that Fitbit is committed to providing value to its users without requiring a premium subscription.

The trend towards subscription-based models in the wearable tech industry is becoming increasingly clear. Apple has already launched Fitness+, Amazon has Halo, and now Fitbit is getting in on the action. While some might be skeptical about the value of these subscriptions, it's worth noting that they often provide access to exclusive features and content that aren't available elsewhere.

One thing that's particularly interesting about the Pixel Watch is its potential for advanced health sensors. Google has talked about integrating a range of health-focused sensors into the watch, including those for heart rate monitoring and sleep tracking. These features are already available on other high-end watches, but it's likely that they'll be more extensively developed in the Pixel Watch.

The Pixel Watch also seems to have a metal plate on the back, which might suggest the presence of advanced sensors like electrodermal skin response (EDR) or blood oxygen level monitoring. While we can't say for sure without more information, these features are certainly plausible given Google's track record with innovation in this area.

It's also worth noting that Fitbit has a history of integrating with other services and devices in innovative ways. For example, its EDA sensor (which measures the body's electrical conductivity) might be integrated into the Pixel Watch in some way. While we can't speculate too much on this just yet, it's clear that Fitbit brings a unique perspective to the wearable tech market.

Ultimately, what we're really looking forward to is how these different technologies and services will come together in the final product. Will the Pixel Watch be able to seamlessly integrate with Google Fit, or will they remain separate entities? One thing's for sure: if Fitbit Premium becomes available on the Pixel Watch, it'll be a major player in the wearable tech landscape.

As we wait for more information on the Pixel Watch and its integration with Fitbit, one question remains: what's the price going to be? While some rumors suggest that the watch might be priced similarly to other high-end models like the Apple Watch or Samsung Galaxy Watch 4, others speculate that it could be more expensive. Whatever the case, we can expect the Pixel Watch to fall in a familiar territory when it comes to pricing.

For now, the focus is on innovation and integration. The future of wearable technology seems bright, with companies pushing the boundaries of what's possible on our wrists. As we look ahead to the release of the Google Pixel Watch, one thing's clear: this will be an exciting development in the world of wearables.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: engoogle's got a whole new smart watch the pixel watch is real here's what we know about it which isn't as much as you might think so at google i o which is google's developer conference the pixel watch was finally announced this is a real product that's coming out in the fall and for anyone who's been looking for some sort of new advanced android compatible smart watch that was made with the type of hardware focus that google's pixel line has this is it now is this going to be everything that you'd expect as kind of an apple watch killer or apple watch competitor for the android set let's see maybe not exactly the way that you think so the pixel watch was shown off and we got to see a glimpse of what it looks like it looks very apple watch like except it has a round display much like the rest of the wear os watch line the design details look even more refined this is very curved has a domed display it has a crown much like the apple watch looks like another button and it looks like it has a lot of sensors on the back those we don't really know much about yet and i'm super curious one thing that this watch has that's a big one is fitbit this is a fitbit featured watch this is something that is the first product or fruit of the collaboration between google's hardware team and fitbit which google acquired a couple of years ago last year google announced a whole revamp of its watch lineup with wear os 3 but it was kind of a half step move we got the sense that there were a lot of big changes coming and fitbit indicated that it would start moving on to wear os watches in the future last year we had the samsung galaxy watch four that was the watch that was the first to get wear os 3. but it was kind of a funky hybrid because it has wear os 3 but it also had a lot of samsung software and health features and services so it was a watch that was probably the best android watch last year but it wasn't quite the wherewest watch a lot of people might have been expecting now a year later we get this watch it's coming out in the fall and it's going to come out alongside the pixel 7 and pixel 7 pro phones which we only got a brief look at so the pixel watch we know a little bit more about again it's a full-featured wear os watch it's going to have fitbit on it though we don't know to what exact capacity and it's going to have cellular or cellular option that's something that's common in wear os watches but it's not been on any fitbit watch before so that's a new feature and we don't know the price so i got a chance to talk to the head of fitbit and the head of google's wearables james park about where things are going to be headed what's interesting about the vision for fitbit similar to where google is looking at the rest of its hardware lineup is the term ambient computing now ambient is basically just where you know everything kind of lives everywhere and that's something you've already probably seen on a lot of your devices whether you're in the apple landscape or the google landscape or the amazon alexa landscape a lot of things talk to each other we're used to that but that's where the pixel watch may play a really big role in where google's trying to head we look at things like google pixel buds or the pixel buds pro and the ability to pair with the watch and switch between that and a phone much like you know apple does with air pods and the apple watch and we're kind of used to with samsung and others in the landscape but there's that there's also google assistant there's also the ability for this to potentially live other places and that's where it also gets interesting because while fitbit is going to be on the pixel watch it'll be curious to see where else fitbit shows up already uh there's been some nest experimentation with sleep tracking whether some of those features become kind of fitbit features or whether fitbit services tie into other things in the google smart home we'll have to find out but i imagine that's part of the plan also for music the ability to pair with some of google's music services and have a better music system for fitbit users seems like a plus here but this is aimed to be a premium watch this is something that already has been stated to be a premium device by james park by rick osterlow who's the head of hardware google so expect a premium price and it looks like the rest of fitbit's hardware lineup for the most part will still be there or at least the trackers so that you will be able to get more affordable products so much like the pixel lineup it looks like it'll be a premium product although you know the pixel budget phone lineup does seem like it's aimed you know at a lower price so it doesn't look like that's going to be the case for the pixel watch what about premium well i did find out that you know there's a subscription plan already for fitbit fitbit premium and it looks like that's still in the works for how it works with pixel watch but we don't know exactly how but just keep in mind if you haven't used fitbit before that there is this premium service that you pay for each month that is the doorway to a lot of the insights and extra features that you'd probably want to use with fitbit fitbit's not alone in this regard most wearables now are moving to subscription models apple has fitness plus amazon halo has subscription there's fitbit and it does seem like a like a growing trend in all of this i'm not wild about subscriptions for wearables now fitbit does have some some more basic features that do work without the subscription it'll be interesting to see how all that plays out with subscription will this have all of the high-end health sensors that the other high-end fitbit products have we don't know the things that have been discussed at this point are heart rate and sleep tracking those keep showing up in what google is talking about with the pixel watch that's what james park talked about with the pixel watch so you can expect that those might be the two biggest features in what are coming as far as things like ecg as far as things like you know fitbit's more experimental features like um eda which is a electro dermal skin response for measuring potential signs of stress or temperature sensing it's not clear that any of those are necessarily showing up but if you do look at the back of the pixel watch in the photo not only do you see a variety of led markers which suggest you know the ability to check for blood oxygen or get richer heart rate but it does have that metal plate which makes me think of ecg also their eda sensor has that type of conductivity i don't want to speculate too much but it does look like a pretty advanced back as far as what you'd expect out of sensors but we just don't know so what we do know is that it'll be premium we know that it's going to have fitbit and we know it's probably going to be one of the most interesting android watches that's coming out this year but there may be more because the whole idea of wear os and is supposed to be this landscape of other compatible watches i mean fossils got wear west watches some of those are going to get warehouse 3. you've got samsung's watches and we don't know what's coming this year so there are a number of other ways that you could go and when i think about the pixel lineup i think about it as a way to introduce new cutting edge features that eventually make their way into other products will fitbit make its way into other watches it's possible but we don't really know from the past how things will shake out in the future maybe the pixel watch does become the place where fitbit lives in the wherewest landscape i guess we'll have to find out and i'm really curious what the price is although if you look at most of the watches that are out there they do tend to fall in a pretty similar territory so i wouldn't be surprised if the pixel watch landed about where the apple watch and samsung galaxy watch 4 are at and that the cellular has the bump up as you'd expect i guess we'll have to wait till the fall to find out more details the things i think about again are music about interconnectivity i also think about google fit because google fit and fitbit remain separate and it looks like that's going to still be the case now how much those really talk to each other they may not but you might find other ways that fitbit starts to be recognized by other google services and if i think about what i'd really want from this i probably want that more than you know blending google fit and fitbit because i'm not really sure i'd use google fit it was kind of a stand-in for for something better but a fitbit is able to be you know you can pull those stats and get that information or have it interact with other services and do it in a way that keeps the data still separate as google has been promising that would be really interesting uh and and that's pretty much what i'm looking for i mean the smartwatch landscape is pretty straightforward at this point but i think what fitbit brings to the table as far as insights as far as some of the more advanced sensor features and some of the more advanced research that they've been doing it really makes it an interesting product challenging apple challenging samsung for where health tech is going to be heading on our wrist that's what we know so far let me know if you have any thoughts down below and those are our initial thoughts based on google's pixel watch which is real and coming pretty soon thanks for watchinggoogle's got a whole new smart watch the pixel watch is real here's what we know about it which isn't as much as you might think so at google i o which is google's developer conference the pixel watch was finally announced this is a real product that's coming out in the fall and for anyone who's been looking for some sort of new advanced android compatible smart watch that was made with the type of hardware focus that google's pixel line has this is it now is this going to be everything that you'd expect as kind of an apple watch killer or apple watch competitor for the android set let's see maybe not exactly the way that you think so the pixel watch was shown off and we got to see a glimpse of what it looks like it looks very apple watch like except it has a round display much like the rest of the wear os watch line the design details look even more refined this is very curved has a domed display it has a crown much like the apple watch looks like another button and it looks like it has a lot of sensors on the back those we don't really know much about yet and i'm super curious one thing that this watch has that's a big one is fitbit this is a fitbit featured watch this is something that is the first product or fruit of the collaboration between google's hardware team and fitbit which google acquired a couple of years ago last year google announced a whole revamp of its watch lineup with wear os 3 but it was kind of a half step move we got the sense that there were a lot of big changes coming and fitbit indicated that it would start moving on to wear os watches in the future last year we had the samsung galaxy watch four that was the watch that was the first to get wear os 3. but it was kind of a funky hybrid because it has wear os 3 but it also had a lot of samsung software and health features and services so it was a watch that was probably the best android watch last year but it wasn't quite the wherewest watch a lot of people might have been expecting now a year later we get this watch it's coming out in the fall and it's going to come out alongside the pixel 7 and pixel 7 pro phones which we only got a brief look at so the pixel watch we know a little bit more about again it's a full-featured wear os watch it's going to have fitbit on it though we don't know to what exact capacity and it's going to have cellular or cellular option that's something that's common in wear os watches but it's not been on any fitbit watch before so that's a new feature and we don't know the price so i got a chance to talk to the head of fitbit and the head of google's wearables james park about where things are going to be headed what's interesting about the vision for fitbit similar to where google is looking at the rest of its hardware lineup is the term ambient computing now ambient is basically just where you know everything kind of lives everywhere and that's something you've already probably seen on a lot of your devices whether you're in the apple landscape or the google landscape or the amazon alexa landscape a lot of things talk to each other we're used to that but that's where the pixel watch may play a really big role in where google's trying to head we look at things like google pixel buds or the pixel buds pro and the ability to pair with the watch and switch between that and a phone much like you know apple does with air pods and the apple watch and we're kind of used to with samsung and others in the landscape but there's that there's also google assistant there's also the ability for this to potentially live other places and that's where it also gets interesting because while fitbit is going to be on the pixel watch it'll be curious to see where else fitbit shows up already uh there's been some nest experimentation with sleep tracking whether some of those features become kind of fitbit features or whether fitbit services tie into other things in the google smart home we'll have to find out but i imagine that's part of the plan also for music the ability to pair with some of google's music services and have a better music system for fitbit users seems like a plus here but this is aimed to be a premium watch this is something that already has been stated to be a premium device by james park by rick osterlow who's the head of hardware google so expect a premium price and it looks like the rest of fitbit's hardware lineup for the most part will still be there or at least the trackers so that you will be able to get more affordable products so much like the pixel lineup it looks like it'll be a premium product although you know the pixel budget phone lineup does seem like it's aimed you know at a lower price so it doesn't look like that's going to be the case for the pixel watch what about premium well i did find out that you know there's a subscription plan already for fitbit fitbit premium and it looks like that's still in the works for how it works with pixel watch but we don't know exactly how but just keep in mind if you haven't used fitbit before that there is this premium service that you pay for each month that is the doorway to a lot of the insights and extra features that you'd probably want to use with fitbit fitbit's not alone in this regard most wearables now are moving to subscription models apple has fitness plus amazon halo has subscription there's fitbit and it does seem like a like a growing trend in all of this i'm not wild about subscriptions for wearables now fitbit does have some some more basic features that do work without the subscription it'll be interesting to see how all that plays out with subscription will this have all of the high-end health sensors that the other high-end fitbit products have we don't know the things that have been discussed at this point are heart rate and sleep tracking those keep showing up in what google is talking about with the pixel watch that's what james park talked about with the pixel watch so you can expect that those might be the two biggest features in what are coming as far as things like ecg as far as things like you know fitbit's more experimental features like um eda which is a electro dermal skin response for measuring potential signs of stress or temperature sensing it's not clear that any of those are necessarily showing up but if you do look at the back of the pixel watch in the photo not only do you see a variety of led markers which suggest you know the ability to check for blood oxygen or get richer heart rate but it does have that metal plate which makes me think of ecg also their eda sensor has that type of conductivity i don't want to speculate too much but it does look like a pretty advanced back as far as what you'd expect out of sensors but we just don't know so what we do know is that it'll be premium we know that it's going to have fitbit and we know it's probably going to be one of the most interesting android watches that's coming out this year but there may be more because the whole idea of wear os and is supposed to be this landscape of other compatible watches i mean fossils got wear west watches some of those are going to get warehouse 3. you've got samsung's watches and we don't know what's coming this year so there are a number of other ways that you could go and when i think about the pixel lineup i think about it as a way to introduce new cutting edge features that eventually make their way into other products will fitbit make its way into other watches it's possible but we don't really know from the past how things will shake out in the future maybe the pixel watch does become the place where fitbit lives in the wherewest landscape i guess we'll have to find out and i'm really curious what the price is although if you look at most of the watches that are out there they do tend to fall in a pretty similar territory so i wouldn't be surprised if the pixel watch landed about where the apple watch and samsung galaxy watch 4 are at and that the cellular has the bump up as you'd expect i guess we'll have to wait till the fall to find out more details the things i think about again are music about interconnectivity i also think about google fit because google fit and fitbit remain separate and it looks like that's going to still be the case now how much those really talk to each other they may not but you might find other ways that fitbit starts to be recognized by other google services and if i think about what i'd really want from this i probably want that more than you know blending google fit and fitbit because i'm not really sure i'd use google fit it was kind of a stand-in for for something better but a fitbit is able to be you know you can pull those stats and get that information or have it interact with other services and do it in a way that keeps the data still separate as google has been promising that would be really interesting uh and and that's pretty much what i'm looking for i mean the smartwatch landscape is pretty straightforward at this point but i think what fitbit brings to the table as far as insights as far as some of the more advanced sensor features and some of the more advanced research that they've been doing it really makes it an interesting product challenging apple challenging samsung for where health tech is going to be heading on our wrist that's what we know so far let me know if you have any thoughts down below and those are our initial thoughts based on google's pixel watch which is real and coming pretty soon thanks for watching\n"